Improved composition haitdle or full



tnitd gime @met @time WILLIAM B. GLEASON, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETTS Letters Patent No. 101,119; dated March 22, 1870.

IMPROVED lCOIMIPOSI'JIIOIN' HANDLE OR PULL.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. GLEAsoN, of

Boston, in ythe county of Suffolk and State of Massacompound of gelatine-and'comminuted'Woody ber,

mixed in a moist h`e`'t'd`ondition, a nd formed into shape in molds under pressure.

My present invention4 consists in a definite article of vmanufacture, the same being a handle or pull made of a plastic compound, in which the ingredients are inter-mixed in a moist condition,-land generally and preferably in a heated state, and finished as to form, (which is preferably and usually ornamental) and surface, byl pressure in a mold, when it has made in the back, by and in the act of molding in a mold under pressure, a depression in which, when the handle is secured upon a draw-front or other object, the iingers of a persons hand may bey entered to obtain a hold through which a pull may be exerted, the handle being otherwise completed and made ready for sale by being simply deprived of its moisture, and, when necessary, wrought on theback to fit the surface to which it is to be attached,

In manufacturing my said article I force into the plastic material with which the mold is tilled, a block which is the reverse counterpart of the depression which I desire to leave in the handle, one surface ot the block adjoining the surface of the mold. When the mold and its contents have received the requisite pressure I remove the block from the handle, previously to removing the latter from the mold, and then finish the handle by drying out the moisture.

In the drawings- Figure 1 represents a front view of my improved handle;

Figure 2 shows the same iu edge view; and

Figure Sis across-section, taken in the plane of the l line z '2.

In figs, 2 and 3 the straight dotted lines represent vthe outline of the materialin which the mold issunken,

into which the composition is to be compressed to form the handle.

The back of the handle is in the plane a a, and from that plane the depression which makes the cavity for reception of the fingers is sunken into the body of the plastic composition.

The block which is used to form the nger-cavity has one surface atb b, in contact with the opposedinner surface of the mold, the block showiugits form of crosssection in iig. 3, vits front elevation in g. 2, and its plan by the heavy dotted line in fig. 1, the cavity in the handle corresponding with the form of the block.

I claim, as a new article oi' manufacture, ai plastic composition handle, formed as described.

W. B. GLEASON.

Witnesses J. B.- Ckosr, C. WARREN BROWN. 

